Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW WINCHCOMBE STREET 630-1/10/1017 (West side) 05/05/72 Bilbrook House and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WINCHCOMBE STREET (West side) Billbrook House) (Formerly Listed as: CLARENCE ROAD (South side) Nos.1-7 (Consecutive))

GV II

Includes: No.1 CLARENCE ROAD. 2 terraced houses and attached railings. c1831-2. Architect probably John Forbes or WA Watson. Stucco over brick with concealed roof and tall stuccoed party-wall stacks. Gothic style. EXTERIOR: Winchcombe Street facade: 2 storeys and basement, 2+5 first-floor windows, with 2-storey porch to right. 2-window range at left breaks forwards. Stucco details include hoodmoulds with labelstops to most windows, moulded crowning cornice and battlements. Windows mainly have 6/6 sashes with pointed panes to square heads; one 2/2 horizontal-pane sash; French windows above door at left. Entrance to left breakforward a 4-panel part-glazed door; entrance to right a panelled door. Right return has 2 windows per floor: 6/6 and 1/1 sashes with hoodmoulds with labelstops. Clarence Road facade: 2 storeys on basement, 1:4:1 first-floor windows, that to left in recessed 2-lower-storey entrance bay, that to right recessed. Mainly 6/6 sashes with hoodmoulds, one blind window to first floor at left. Crowning cornice and crenellations. Entrance to right in solid crenellated porch a panelled door. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: arrowhead dividing railings. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as part of the development of this area



undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1825-42, the general layout being designed by architect John Forbes. A good example of Classical articulation given Regency Gothic features. Forms a group with Nos 2-7 Clarence Road (qv). (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 37,58; Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 54).



Listing NGR: SO9525722824

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